6 December 1748. 



may fee their grandchildren, till the third 

 and fourth generation, has been literally ful- 

 filled in regard to fome of thefe perfons *. 



December the pth, IN every country, we 

 commonly meet with a number of infeds ; 

 of which many, though they be ever fo 

 fmall and contemptible, can do confiderable 

 damage to the inhabitants. Of thefe dan- 

 gerous infeds, there are likewife fome ill 

 North America ' fome are peculiar to that 

 country, others are common to Europe like- 

 wife. 



I HAVE already, in the preceding volume, 

 mentioned the Mofquitoes, as a kind of difa- 

 greeable gnats ; and another noxious infedt^ 

 the Brucbuj Pifi> which deftroys v/hole fields 

 with peafe. 1 ihall here add fome more. 



There are a kind of Locujls> which about 

 every feventeenth year come hither in in- 

 credible numbers. They come out of the 

 ground in the middle of May, and make, 

 for fix weeks together, fuch a noife in the 

 trees and woods, that two perfons who 

 meet in fuch places, cannot underftand each 

 other, unlefs they fpeak louder than the 

 locuits can chirp. During that time, they 

 make, with the Ring in their tail, holes in- 

 to the foft bark of the little branches on the 

 trees, by which means thefe branches are 



ruined, 



f Mr. Kalm fpeaks here of the Swcdifi Liturgy. 



